Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was first published by Caverswall Palace Publications in 1995. That version was rewritten in 1998 and republished, the new edition being over four times longer than the original. The rewritten version was also put onto Caverswall Palace's website at the beginning of 1999 where it remained for several years. After Caverswall Palace removed the story from its website, it was revitalised and re-edited in 2008 when it was republished - again - in a version not unlike the version you can purchase on this very website. The current edition, the new and exclusive 2010 one, is presented in a handy pocket-sized paperback book of 180 or so pages.
As fifteen years have past since Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves made its first debut, it has had
one or two readers in that time. It may even have had three. And some of those readers have been kind enough to leave comments about the story. Below are some of the testimonies of some of the story's readers, published here in the hope that you will also decide to buy the story.
"I just couldn't stop laughing. Then, I read
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. I was cured forever."
Mr P. Otato, Professor of Japanese at the University of Chipping Sodbury
"It was my annus fantasticus, made even better by the publication of
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
by Caverswall Palace
Publications."
Her Majesty The Queen in her speech to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, Christmas Day, 1998
"You've made a spelling mistake on page thirty-nine."
Some picky person from Kent. Should be fixed now
"I don't get this bit."
Anonymous
"Why are there no illustrations? I demand pictures! Give me pictures!"
Michaelangelo
"Please tell me why ali baba and the 40 thieves steal my jewels from
me."
Midge Pizza (this was a real email I received
- still don't understand it)
"You were asked to submit an essay about how Romeo's rash
impetuousness was his Achilles Heal. Instead, you handed this in.
Brilliant as it is, it doesn't really approach the topic you were meant
to write about. C-"
Mr Edwards, GCSE English teacher at my school,
1995
"If I didn't have to get the new Star Wars trilogy completed
by 2005, I'd turn this story into a film in a flash."
George Lucas in response to an email I sent asking
him to turn this story into a film
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